April 21, 2008

Botaniscapes by Mark Venagliain celebration of Earth Month

New paintings from nine feet tall to four inches by four inches

SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 6-9 PM at CISCO HOME

Noted Manhattan art critic Maria Pavlovich McCarthy: “The truth is- a viewer doesn’t only observe and behold Mark’s flowers, one actually encounters them. To meet a flower in this show is to be seized by its anthropomorphic power and to accept its near-humanity. In as much as the finest portraits of humans possess a visual endowment of spirit and life to be considered a cultural experience, so do Mark’s floral images. They possess an inner substance which belies the mere beauty of their painted forms.

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